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The Controversies

St. Francis de Sales

This book is in French.

The controversy tracts composed by St. Francis de Sales in 1595-1596 to win back the people of the Chablais: the defence of the Church’s authority, the rules of faith, the sacraments and purgatory. The critical text of the Annecy edition (vol. I) in period spelling, with the epistle to the people of Thonon and the preparatory notes.

Contents

Source: Francis’s text in the original 17th-century spelling, extracted from the PDF text layer (layout mode). Marginal references, the variants and footnotes, the editors’ general introduction and the tables are not included. The article headings are set as second-level headings; chapter titles come from the edition’s table of contents.